When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

Nobody cares. You shouldn't either.

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.